Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Image. For Bobby, that took a lot of the appeal out of the project. He had never climbed a mountain before, and as a newly elected member of the Senate, there was the question of whether he shouldn't stick to his business on Capitol Hill. But news of the expedition got out, and now it became a matter of preserving that dare-all Kennedy family image. His wife Ethel explained, with as much insight as humor: "I think he wants to take his mind off the fact that he's not an astronaut...
Whittaker and Prather had nothing but praise for Neophyte Kennedy, but in the eternal spirit of internal Kennedy-family gamesmanship Brother Teddy was quick to point out that Bobby "is not the first Kennedy to climb a mountain. I climbed the Matterhorn, which is higher [14,780 ft.], and I didn't need the Royal Canadian Mounted Police." That was all right with Bobby. "I didn't really enjoy any part of it," he admitted frankly, "but I can understand why people like climbing. They are a special breed of men." Henceforth, he added, "I'm going...
...Mountains. As described by Portuguese peasants who have made it, the journey to France is both circuitous and cruel. Once he has paid the local smuggling agent for his passage, the peasant is sent to a mountain hideout near the Spanish border, where he joins a group of 15 or 20 others and is turned over to a guide. Traveling for two frigid nights, they scramble over secret mountain trails into Spain, carrying their belongings with them. A vegetable truck drives them some 300 miles to an isolated ranch in the Pyrenees above San Sebastian. From there...
Midwestern students are turning to the ski slopes of Aspen, Colo., and Taos, N. Mex., while West Coast kids like Mammoth Mountain in the Sierras, which is now so swamped that skiers wait 45 minutes for a lift. A few students, here and there, are going all the way to Italy or Spain. And, as ever, there is also a small clique of connoisseurs who insist on going to a great place called New York...
...Steve, 30, and Norman, 33-were unconvinced. They had read in TIME. (Nov. 22, 1963) that giveaway weeklies were thriving as never before, were convinced that they too could turn a profit by putting out a good paper. They began by giving the paper a new name, the Rocky Mountain Review, and a new purpose. No more "whispering," they told readers on April 2, 1964. From then on, the paper would switch from a giveaway to a "voluntary" 10? per copy-and its news columns would "shout...